To promote the interaction and integration between digital technology and music, we are glad to announce that 2019 International Electronic Music Competition is now opened. We are calling for both Song Writing and Electronic Music works.

I may be totally wrong, but this looks dodgy.Googling "International Electronic Music Competition" finds very little apart from this announcement being made on several forums with similar interests as this one in the last couple of days.They only have a facebook page, only created yesterday.So, no background, no website, and payment is to be made to a Chinese Bank account.How many alarms are going off?

Thanks Kwackman. You're not the only person to have flagged this up as potentially dodgy.

I also had a google around, and it's clear the 'organisers' have splattered this same promotional post around a lot of forums all at the same time. But I can't find any credible endorsements or support anywhere, and the idea of paying an upfront fee -- let alone paying it into a Chinese back account -- certainly does ring all the alarm bells.

This might be a well-intentioned but naive attempt at starting a genuine competition... but I fear it is a scam. Anyway, I'll leave this up till Friday to see if the organisers respond to the concerns raised. If they don't I'll lock the thread but leave it up as a warning to potential applicants.

We are calling for both Song Writing and Electronic Music works. The deadline for submitting your works at 2019 IEMC is Aug. 8th.

2019 IEMC cooperates with Netease Cloud Music (Chinese: 网易云音乐) , a major music streaming platform in China. The review process will include votes from users of Netease Cloud Music, and the selected works will be promoted on the platform.

The review process will also include votes from professional judges, including Du Yun, the winner of 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

The registration fee for 2019 IEMC is $30 USD. Multiple prizes will be awarded, including the IEMC Grand Award for each of the two categories.

To submit your work, please check our Facebook page or download the guideline and registration form, and send us a email with your payment receipt. The payment can go through either Bank transaction or PayPal.

Important Dates:August 8: Deadline for submissionAugust 30: Online reviewing and public voting for shortlisted works will be shown live on Netease Cloud Music.October 12: Award Ceremony at Music China Expo, Shanghai

2019 International Electronic Music Competition is a professional, crossover and high-end competition hosted by the a group of the leading organizations in China's electronic music industry. We have invited many of the world-renowned musicians and industry experts to join our review panel.

Our reviewers include:

B6B6, otherwise known as Lou Nanli, is from Shanghai, China. His career began in 1999 and he became one of China’s leading electronic musicians, composers and sound artists. He is also a well respected designer and installation artist. B6 has built up long-term collaborative relationships in China with many renowned musicians and singers. He also was the producer for many modern Chinese Pop musicians and albums. His collaborators include Li Quan, Wan Xiaoshen and Tan Weiwei to name a few. His songs have also secured No. 1 positions in pop charts as well as winning him numerous awards. Furthermore, in 2012, his early work My Post-Rock Yard was the accompanying music in a United Nations promotional short film.

Du YunDu Yun, a Chinese born international composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone. She was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018 and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow.

ERIC ZHOERIC ZHO is the founder of Asia's electronic music titan, A2 Entertainment Group (“A2EG”). Under his guidance, A2EG created and launched the STORM festival brand in 2013. Since that time, the company has grown into the largest promoter in China for dance music with brands like STORM Electronic Music Festival, Corona Sunsets Festival, STORM Massive, STORM Prologue, STORM Aftermath, Black Knight, Now or Never, and DYT Presents. With the signing of AVICII, Alesso, Axwell^Ingrosso, Far East Movement, Alan Walker, Swanky Tunes, and many leading local Chinese DJs, the artist management subsidiary gave the birth to the need for the group to launch its own record label.

Jin FuzaiJin Fuzai is an esteemed Chinese composer. He studied at Shanghai Conservatory of Music and is notable for his longtime collaboration with Shanghai Animation Film Studio. He has composed for many of the most famous animation films in China, such as Nezha Conquers the Dragon King and Three Monksas. He also compose for live-action films and theatre, and received numerous awards for his works. His works include . In recent years, he has focused on teaching music, performance and musical at Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Well I have just spent the last hour listening to Chinese pop tunes, and there's some really good stuff! I was doing some Youtube searches for some of the artists mentioned in the post above and as per usual; I got distracted by the side bar, and glad I did ;-)